4 <Network Working Group> Larry Zhu
5 Internet Draft Karthik Jaganathan
6 Updates: 1964 Microsoft
7 Category: Standards Track Sam Hartman
8 draft-ietf-krb-wg-gssapi-cfx-06.txt MIT
10 Expires: August 16, 2004
12 The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism: Version 2
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45 This document defines protocols, procedures, and conventions to be
46 employed by peers implementing the Generic Security Service
47 Application Program Interface (GSS-API) when using the Kerberos
50 RFC-1964 is updated and incremental changes are proposed in response
51 to recent developments such as the introduction of Kerberos
52 cryptosystem framework. These changes support the inclusion of new
53 cryptosystems, by defining new per-message tokens along with their
54 encryption and checksum algorithms based on the cryptosystem
57 Conventions used in this document
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63 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
64 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
65 document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC-2119].
67 The term "little endian order" is used for brevity to refer to the
68 least-significant-octet-first encoding, while the term "big endian
69 order" is for the most-significant-octet-first encoding.
73 1. Introduction ............................................... 2
74 2. Key Derivation for Per-Message Tokens ...................... 3
75 3. Quality of Protection ...................................... 4
76 4. Definitions and Token Formats .............................. 4
77 4.1. Context Establishment Tokens ............................. 4
78 4.1.1. Authenticator Checksum ................................. 5
79 4.2. Per-Message Tokens ....................................... 8
80 4.2.1. Sequence Number ........................................ 8
81 4.2.2. Flags Field ............................................ 8
82 4.2.3. EC Field ............................................... 9
83 4.2.4. Encryption and Checksum Operations ..................... 9
84 4.2.5. RRC Field .............................................. 10
85 4.2.6. Message Layouts ........................................ 10
86 4.3. Context Deletion Tokens .................................. 11
87 4.4. Token Identifier Assignment Considerations ............... 11
88 5. Parameter Definitions ...................................... 12
89 5.1. Minor Status Codes ....................................... 12
90 5.1.1. Non-Kerberos-specific codes ............................ 12
91 5.1.2. Kerberos-specific-codes ................................ 12
92 5.2. Buffer Sizes ............................................. 13
93 6. Backwards Compatibility Considerations ..................... 13
94 7. Security Considerations .................................... 13
95 8. Acknowledgments ............................................ 14
96 9. Intellectual Property Statement ............................ 15
97 10. References ................................................ 15
98 10.1. Normative References .................................... 15
99 10.2. Informative References .................................. 15
100 11. Author's Address .......................................... 15
101 Full Copyright Statement ...................................... 17
105 [KCRYPTO] defines a generic framework for describing encryption and
106 checksum types to be used with the Kerberos protocol and associated
109 [RFC-1964] describes the GSS-API mechanism for Kerberos Version 5.
110 It defines the format of context establishment, per-message and
111 context deletion tokens and uses algorithm identifiers for each
112 cryptosystem in per message and context deletion tokens.
114 The approach taken in this document obviates the need for algorithm
115 identifiers. This is accomplished by using the same encryption
116 algorithm, specified by the crypto profile [KCRYPTO] for the session
117 key or subkey that is created during context negotiation, and its
118 required checksum algorithm. Message layouts of the per-message
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122 tokens are therefore revised to remove algorithm indicators and also
123 to add extra information to support the generic crypto framework
126 Tokens transferred between GSS-API peers for security context
127 establishment are also described in this document. The data
128 elements exchanged between a GSS-API endpoint implementation and the
129 Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) [KRBCLAR] are not specific to
130 GSS-API usage and are therefore defined within [KRBCLAR] rather than
131 within this specification.
133 The new token formats specified in this document MUST be used with
134 all "newer" encryption types [KRBCLAR] and MAY be used with "older"
135 encryption types, provided that the initiator and acceptor know,
136 from the context establishment, that they can both process these new
139 "Newer" encryption types are those which have been specified along
140 with or since the new Kerberos cryptosystem specification [KCRYPTO],
141 as defined in section 3.1.3 of [KRBCLAR]. The list of not-newer
142 encryption types is as follows [KCRYPTO]:
144 Encryption Type Assigned Number
145 ----------------------------------------------
152 md5WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 10
153 sha1WithRSAEncryption-CmsOID 11
155 rsaEncryption-EnvOID 13
156 rsaES-OAEP-ENV-OID 14
157 des-ede3-cbc-Env-OID 15
161 2. Key Derivation for Per-Message Tokens
163 To limit the exposure of a given key, [KCRYPTO] adopted "one-way"
164 "entropy-preserving" derived keys, for different purposes or key
165 usages, from a base key or protocol key.
167 This document defines four key usage values below that are used to
168 derive a specific key for signing and sealing messages, from the
169 session key or subkey [KRBCLAR] created during the context
173 -------------------------------------
174 KG-USAGE-ACCEPTOR-SEAL 22
175 KG-USAGE-ACCEPTOR-SIGN 23
176 KG-USAGE-INITIATOR-SEAL 24
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181 KG-USAGE-INITIATOR-SIGN 25
183 When the sender is the context acceptor, KG-USAGE-ACCEPTOR-SIGN is
184 used as the usage number in the key derivation function for deriving
185 keys to be used in MIC tokens (as defined in section 4.2.6.1), and
186 KG-USAGE-ACCEPTOR-SEAL is used for Wrap tokens(as defined in section
187 4.2.6.2); similarly when the sender is the context initiator, KG-
188 USAGE-INITIATOR-SIGN is used as the usage number in the key
189 derivation function for MIC tokens, KG-USAGE-INITIATOR-SEAL is used
190 for Wrap Tokens. Even if the Wrap token does not provide for
191 confidentiality the same usage values specified above are used.
193 During the context initiation and acceptance sequence, the acceptor
194 MAY assert a subkey, and if so, subsequent messages MUST use this
195 subkey as the protocol key and these messages MUST be flagged as
196 "AcceptorSubkey" as described in section 4.2.2.
198 3. Quality of Protection
200 The GSS-API specification [RFC-2743] provides for Quality of
201 Protection (QOP) values that can be used by applications to request
202 a certain type of encryption or signing. A zero QOP value is used
203 to indicate the "default" protection; applications which do not use
204 the default QOP are not guaranteed to be portable across
205 implementations or even inter-operate with different deployment
206 configurations of the same implementation. Using an algorithm that
207 is different from the one for which the key is defined may not be
208 appropriate. Therefore, when the new method in this document is
209 used, the QOP value is ignored.
211 The encryption and checksum algorithms in per-message tokens are now
212 implicitly defined by the algorithms associated with the session key
213 or subkey. Algorithms identifiers as described in [RFC-1964] are
214 therefore no longer needed and removed from the new token headers.
216 4. Definitions and Token Formats
218 This section provides terms and definitions, as well as descriptions
219 for tokens specific to the Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API mechanism.
221 4.1. Context Establishment Tokens
223 All context establishment tokens emitted by the Kerberos Version 5
224 GSS-API mechanism SHALL have the framing described in section 3.1 of
225 [RFC-2743], as illustrated by the following pseudo-ASN.1 structures:
227 GSS-API DEFINITIONS ::=
231 MechType ::= OBJECT IDENTIFIER
232 -- representing Kerberos V5 mechanism
235 -- option indication (delegation, etc.) indicated within
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239 -- mechanism-specific token
240 [APPLICATION 0] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE {
242 innerToken ANY DEFINED BY thisMech
243 -- contents mechanism-specific
244 -- ASN.1 structure not required
249 Where the innerToken field starts with a two-octet token-identifier
250 (TOK_ID) expressed in big endian order, followed by a Kerberos
253 Here are the TOK_ID values used in the context establishment tokens:
255 Token TOK_ID Value in Hex
256 -----------------------------------------
261 Where Kerberos message KRB_AP_REQUEST, KRB_AP_REPLY, and KRB_ERROR
262 are defined in [KRBCLAR].
264 If an unknown token identifier (TOK_ID) is received in the initial
265 context establishment token, the receiver MUST return
266 GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED major status, and the returned output token
267 MUST contain a KRB_ERROR message with the error code
268 KRB_AP_ERR_MSG_TYPE [KRBCLAR].
270 4.1.1. Authenticator Checksum
272 The authenticator in the KRB_AP_REQ message MUST include the
273 optional sequence number and the checksum field. The checksum field
274 is used to convey service flags, channel bindings, and optional
275 delegation information.
277 The checksum type MUST be 0x8003. When delegation is used, a ticket-
278 granting ticket will be transferred in a KRB_CRED message. This
279 ticket SHOULD have its forwardable flag set. The EncryptedData
280 field of the KRB_CRED message [KRBCLAR] MUST be encrypted in the
281 session key of the ticket used to authenticate the context.
283 The authenticator checksum field SHALL have the following format:
285 Octet Name Description
286 -----------------------------------------------------------------
287 0..3 Lgth Number of octets in Bnd field; Represented
288 in little-endian order; Currently contains
289 hex value 10 00 00 00 (16).
290 4..19 Bnd Channel binding information, as described in
292 20..23 Flags Four-octet context-establishment flags in
293 little-endian order as described in section
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298 24..25 DlgOpt The delegation option identifier (=1) in
299 little-endian order [optional]. This field
300 and the next two fields are present if and
301 only if GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set as described
303 26..27 Dlgth The length of the Deleg field in little-
304 endian order [optional].
305 28..(n-1) Deleg A KRB_CRED message (n = Dlgth + 28)
307 n..last Exts Extensions [optional].
309 The length of the checksum field MUST be at least 24 octets when
310 GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is not set (as described in section 4.1.1.1), and
311 at least 28 octets plus Dlgth octets when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set.
312 When GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set, the DlgOpt, Dlgth and Deleg fields
313 of the checksum data MUST immediately follow the Flags field. The
314 optional trailing octets (namely the "Exts" field) facilitate
315 future extensions to this mechanism. When delegation is not used
316 but the Exts field is present, the Exts field starts at octet 24
317 (DlgOpt, Dlgth and Deleg are absent).
319 Initiators that do not support the extensions MUST NOT include more
320 than 24 octets in the checksum field, when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is not
321 set, or more than 28 octets plus the KRB_CRED in the Deleg field,
322 when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set. Acceptors that do not understand the
323 extensions MUST ignore any octets past the Deleg field of the
324 checksum data, when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is set, or past the Flags field
325 of the checksum data, when GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG is not set.
327 4.1.1.1. Checksum Flags Field
329 The checksum "Flags" field is used to convey service options or
330 extension negotiation information.
332 The following context establishment flags are defined in [RFC-2744].
335 ---------------------------------
339 GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG 8
343 Context establishment flags are exposed to the calling application.
344 If the calling application desires a particular service option then
345 it requests that option via GSS_Init_sec_context() [RFC-2743]. If
346 the corresponding return state values [RFC-2743] indicate that any
347 of above optional context level services will be active on the
348 context, the corresponding flag values in the table above MUST be
349 set in the checksum Flags field.
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355 Flag values 4096..524288 (2^12, 2^13, ..., 2^19) are reserved for
356 use with legacy vendor-specific extensions to this mechanism.
358 All other flag values not specified herein are reserved for future
359 use. Future revisions of this mechanism may use these reserved
360 flags and may rely on implementations of this version to not use
361 such flags in order to properly negotiate mechanism versions.
362 Undefined flag values MUST be cleared by the sender, and unknown
363 flags MUST be ignored by the receiver.
365 4.1.1.2. Channel Binding Information
367 These tags are intended to be used to identify the particular
368 communications channel for which the GSS-API security context
369 establishment tokens are intended, thus limiting the scope within
370 which an intercepted context establishment token can be reused by an
371 attacker (see [RFC-2743], section 1.1.6).
373 When using C language bindings, channel bindings are communicated
374 to the GSS-API using the following structure [RFC-2744]:
376 typedef struct gss_channel_bindings_struct {
377 OM_uint32 initiator_addrtype;
378 gss_buffer_desc initiator_address;
379 OM_uint32 acceptor_addrtype;
380 gss_buffer_desc acceptor_address;
381 gss_buffer_desc application_data;
382 } *gss_channel_bindings_t;
384 The member fields and constants used for different address types
385 are defined in [RFC-2744].
387 The "Bnd" field contains the MD5 hash of channel bindings, taken
388 over all non-null components of bindings, in order of declaration.
389 Integer fields within channel bindings are represented in little-
390 endian order for the purposes of the MD5 calculation.
392 In computing the contents of the Bnd field, the following detailed
395 (1) For purposes of MD5 hash computation, each integer field and
396 input length field SHALL be formatted into four octets, using
397 little endian octet ordering.
399 (2) All input length fields within gss_buffer_desc elements of a
400 gss_channel_bindings_struct even those which are zero-valued, SHALL
401 be included in the hash calculation; the value elements of
402 gss_buffer_desc elements SHALL be dereferenced, and the resulting
403 data SHALL be included within the hash computation, only for the
404 case of gss_buffer_desc elements having non-zero length specifiers.
406 (3) If the caller passes the value GSS_C_NO_BINDINGS instead of a
407 valid channel binding structure, the Bnd field SHALL be set to 16
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413 If the caller to GSS_Accept_sec_context [RFC-2743] passes in
414 GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS [RFC-2744] as the channel bindings then
415 the acceptor MAY ignore any channel bindings supplied by the
416 initiator, returning success even if the initiator did pass in
419 If the application supply, in the channel bindings, a buffer with a
420 length field larger than 4294967295 (2^32 - 1), the implementation
421 of this mechanism MAY chose to reject the channel bindings
422 altogether, using major status GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS [RFC-2743]. In
423 any case, the size of channel binding data buffers that can be used
424 (interoperable, without extensions) with this specification is
425 limited to 4294967295 octets.
427 4.2. Per-Message Tokens
429 Two classes of tokens are defined in this section: "MIC" tokens,
430 emitted by calls to GSS_GetMIC() and consumed by calls to
431 GSS_VerifyMIC(), "Wrap" tokens, emitted by calls to GSS_Wrap() and
432 consumed by calls to GSS_Unwrap().
434 The new per-message tokens introduced here do not include the
435 generic GSS-API token framing used by the context establishment
436 tokens. These new tokens are designed to be used with newer crypto
437 systems that can, for example, have variable-size checksums.
439 4.2.1. Sequence Number
441 To distinguish intentionally-repeated messages from maliciously-
442 replayed ones, per-message tokens contain a sequence number field,
443 which is a 64 bit integer expressed in big endian order. After
444 sending a GSS_GetMIC() or GSS_Wrap() token, the sender's sequence
445 numbers SHALL be incremented by one.
449 The "Flags" field is a one-octet integer used to indicate a set of
450 attributes for the protected message. For example, one flag is
451 allocated as the direction-indicator, thus preventing an adversary
452 from sending back the same message in the reverse direction and
455 The meanings of bits in this field (the least significant bit is
456 bit 0) are as follows:
459 ---------------------------------------------------------------
460 0 SentByAcceptor When set, this flag indicates the sender
461 is the context acceptor. When not set,
462 it indicates the sender is the context
464 1 Sealed When set in Wrap tokens, this flag
465 indicates confidentiality is provided
466 for. It SHALL NOT be set in MIC tokens.
467 2 AcceptorSubkey A subkey asserted by the context acceptor
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471 is used to protect the message.
473 The rest of available bits are reserved for future use and MUST be
474 cleared. The receiver MUST ignore unknown flags.
478 The "EC" (Extra Count) field is a two-octet integer field expressed
481 In Wrap tokens with confidentiality, the EC field SHALL be used to
482 encode the number of octets in the filler, as described in section
485 In Wrap tokens without confidentiality, the EC field SHALL be used
486 to encode the number of octets in the trailing checksum, as
487 described in section 4.2.4.
489 4.2.4. Encryption and Checksum Operations
491 The encryption algorithms defined by the crypto profiles provide for
492 integrity protection [KCRYPTO]. Therefore no separate checksum is
495 The result of decryption can be longer than the original plaintext
496 [KCRYPTO] and the extra trailing octets are called "crypto-system
497 garbage" in this document. However, given the size of any plaintext
498 data, one can always find a (possibly larger) size so that, when
499 padding the to-be-encrypted text to that size, there will be no
500 crypto-system garbage added [KCRYPTO].
502 In Wrap tokens that provide for confidentiality, the first 16 octets
503 of the Wrap token (the "header", as defined in section 4.2.6), SHALL
504 be appended to the plaintext data before encryption. Filler octets
505 MAY be inserted between the plaintext data and the "header", and the
506 values and size of the filler octets are chosen by implementations,
507 such that there SHALL be no crypto-system garbage present after the
508 decryption. The resulting Wrap token is {"header" |
509 encrypt(plaintext-data | filler | "header")}, where encrypt() is the
510 encryption operation (which provides for integrity protection)
511 defined in the crypto profile [KCRYPTO], and the RRC field (as
512 defined in section 4.2.5) in the to-be-encrypted header contain the
515 In Wrap tokens that do not provide for confidentiality, the checksum
516 SHALL be calculated first over the to-be-signed plaintext data, and
517 then the first 16 octets of the Wrap token (the "header", as defined
518 in section 4.2.6). Both the EC field and the RRC field in the token
519 header SHALL be filled with zeroes for the purpose of calculating
520 the checksum. The resulting Wrap token is {"header" | plaintext-
521 data | get_mic(plaintext-data | "header")}, where get_mic() is the
522 checksum operation for the required checksum mechanism of the chosen
523 encryption mechanism defined in the crypto profile [KCRYPTO].
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529 The parameters for the key and the cipher-state in the encrypt() and
530 get_mic() operations have been omitted for brevity.
532 For MIC tokens, the checksum SHALL be calculated as follows: the
533 checksum operation is calculated first over the to-be-signed
534 plaintext data, and then the first 16 octets of the MIC token, where
535 the checksum mechanism is the required checksum mechanism of the
536 chosen encryption mechanism defined in the crypto profile [KCRYPTO].
538 The resulting Wrap and MIC tokens bind the data to the token header,
539 including the sequence number and the direction indicator.
543 The "RRC" (Right Rotation Count) field in Wrap tokens is added to
544 allow the data to be encrypted in-place by existing SSPI (Security
545 Service Provider Interface) [SSPI] applications that do not provide
546 an additional buffer for the trailer (the cipher text after the in-
547 place-encrypted data) in addition to the buffer for the header (the
548 cipher text before the in-place-encrypted data). The resulting Wrap
549 token in the previous section, excluding the first 16 octets of the
550 token header, is rotated to the right by "RRC" octets. The net
551 result is that "RRC" octets of trailing octets are moved toward the
552 header. Consider the following as an example of this rotation
553 operation: Assume that the RRC value is 3 and the token before the
554 rotation is {"header" | aa | bb | cc | dd | ee | ff | gg | hh}, the
555 token after rotation would be {"header" | ff | gg | hh | aa | bb |
556 cc | dd | ee }, where {aa | bb | cc |...| hh} is used to indicate
559 The RRC field is expressed as a two-octet integer in big endian
562 The rotation count value is chosen by the sender based on
563 implementation details, and the receiver MUST be able to interpret
564 all possible rotation count values, including rotation counts
565 greater than the length of the token.
567 4.2.6. Message Layouts
569 Per-message tokens start with a two-octet token identifier (TOK_ID)
570 field, expressed in big endian order. These tokens are defined
571 separately in subsequent sub-sections.
575 Use of the GSS_GetMIC() call yields a token (referred as the MIC
576 token in this document), separate from the user
577 data being protected, which can be used to verify the integrity of
578 that data as received. The token has the following format:
580 Octet no Name Description
581 -----------------------------------------------------------------
582 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field. Tokens emitted by
583 GSS_GetMIC() contain the hex value 04 04
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587 expressed in big endian order in this field.
588 2 Flags Attributes field, as described in section
590 3..7 Filler Contains five octets of hex value FF.
591 8..15 SND_SEQ Sequence number field in clear text,
592 expressed in big endian order.
593 16..last SGN_CKSUM Checksum of the "to-be-signed" data and
594 octet 0..15, as described in section 4.2.4.
596 The Filler field is included in the checksum calculation for
601 Use of the GSS_Wrap() call yields a token (referred as the Wrap
602 token in this document), which consists of a descriptive header,
603 followed by a body portion that contains either the input user data
604 in plaintext concatenated with the checksum, or the input user data
605 encrypted. The GSS_Wrap() token SHALL have the following format:
607 Octet no Name Description
608 ---------------------------------------------------------------
609 0..1 TOK_ID Identification field. Tokens emitted by
610 GSS_Wrap() contain the the hex value 05 04
611 expressed in big endian order in this field.
612 2 Flags Attributes field, as described in section
614 3 Filler Contains the hex value FF.
615 4..5 EC Contains the "extra count" field, in big
616 endian order as described in section 4.2.3.
617 6..7 RRC Contains the "right rotation count" in big
618 endian order, as described in section 4.2.5.
619 8..15 SND_SEQ Sequence number field in clear text,
620 expressed in big endian order.
621 16..last Data Encrypted data for Wrap tokens with
622 confidentiality, or plaintext data followed
623 by the checksum for Wrap tokens without
624 confidentiality, as described in section
627 4.3. Context Deletion Tokens
629 Context deletion tokens are empty in this mechanism. Both peers to
630 a security context invoke GSS_Delete_sec_context() [RFC-2743]
631 independently, passing a null output_context_token buffer to
632 indicate that no context_token is required. Implementations of
633 GSS_Delete_sec_context() should delete relevant locally-stored
636 4.4. Token Identifier Assignment Considerations
638 Token identifiers (TOK_ID) from 0x60 0x00 through 0x60 0xFF
639 inclusive are reserved and SHALL NOT be assigned. Thus by examining
640 the first two octets of a token, one can tell unambiguously if it is
641 wrapped with the generic GSS-API token framing.
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646 5. Parameter Definitions
648 This section defines parameter values used by the Kerberos V5 GSS-
649 API mechanism. It defines interface elements in support of
650 portability, and assumes use of C language bindings per [RFC-2744].
652 5.1. Minor Status Codes
654 This section recommends common symbolic names for minor_status
655 values to be returned by the Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism. Use of
656 these definitions will enable independent implementers to enhance
657 application portability across different implementations of the
658 mechanism defined in this specification. (In all cases,
659 implementations of GSS_Display_status() will enable callers to
660 convert minor_status indicators to text representations.) Each
661 implementation should make available, through include files or other
662 means, a facility to translate these symbolic names into the
663 concrete values which a particular GSS-API implementation uses to
664 represent the minor_status values specified in this section.
666 It is recognized that this list may grow over time, and that the
667 need for additional minor_status codes specific to particular
668 implementations may arise. It is recommended, however, that
669 implementations should return a minor_status value as defined on a
670 mechanism-wide basis within this section when that code is
671 accurately representative of reportable status rather than using a
672 separate, implementation-defined code.
674 5.1.1. Non-Kerberos-specific codes
676 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_SERVICE_NAME
677 /* "No @ in SERVICE-NAME name string" */
678 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_STRING_UID
679 /* "STRING-UID-NAME contains nondigits" */
681 /* "UID does not resolve to username" */
682 GSS_KRB5_S_G_VALIDATE_FAILED
683 /* "Validation error" */
684 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BUFFER_ALLOC
685 /* "Couldn't allocate gss_buffer_t data" */
686 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_MSG_CTX
687 /* "Message context invalid" */
688 GSS_KRB5_S_G_WRONG_SIZE
689 /* "Buffer is the wrong size" */
690 GSS_KRB5_S_G_BAD_USAGE
691 /* "Credential usage type is unknown" */
692 GSS_KRB5_S_G_UNKNOWN_QOP
693 /* "Unknown quality of protection specified" */
695 5.1.2. Kerberos-specific-codes
697 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CCACHE_NOMATCH
698 /* "Client principal in credentials does not match
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703 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_KEYTAB_NOMATCH
704 /* "No key available for specified service principal" */
705 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_TGT_MISSING
706 /* "No Kerberos ticket-granting ticket available" */
707 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_NO_SUBKEY
708 /* "Authenticator has no subkey" */
709 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CONTEXT_ESTABLISHED
710 /* "Context is already fully established" */
711 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_BAD_SIGN_TYPE
712 /* "Unknown signature type in token" */
713 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_BAD_LENGTH
714 /* "Invalid field length in token" */
715 GSS_KRB5_S_KG_CTX_INCOMPLETE
716 /* "Attempt to use incomplete security context" */
720 All implementations of this specification MUST be capable of
721 accepting buffers of at least 16K octets as input to GSS_GetMIC(),
722 GSS_VerifyMIC(), and GSS_Wrap(), and MUST be capable of accepting
723 the output_token generated by GSS_Wrap() for a 16K octet input
724 buffer as input to GSS_Unwrap(). Implementations SHOULD support 64K
725 octet input buffers, and MAY support even larger input buffer sizes.
727 6. Backwards Compatibility Considerations
729 The new token formats defined in this document will only be
730 recognized by new implementations. To address this, implementations
731 can always use the explicit sign or seal algorithm in [RFC-1964]
732 when the key type corresponds to "older" enctypes. An alternative
733 approach might be to retry sending the message with the sign or seal
734 algorithm explicitly defined as in [RFC-1964]. However this would
735 require either the use of a mechanism such as [RFC-2478] to securely
736 negotiate the method or the use out of band mechanism to choose
737 appropriate mechanism. For this reason, it is RECOMMENDED that the
738 new token formats defined in this document SHOULD be used only if
739 both peers are known to support the new mechanism during context
740 negotiation because of, for example, the use of "new" enctypes.
742 GSS_Unwrap() or GSS_VerifyMIC() can process a message token as
743 follows: it can look at the first octet of the token header, if it
744 is 0x60 then the token must carry the generic GSS-API pseudo ASN.1
745 framing, otherwise the first two octets of the token contain the
746 TOK_ID that uniquely identify the token message format.
748 7. Security Considerations
750 Channel bindings are validated by the acceptor. The acceptor can
751 ignore the channel bindings restriction supplied by the initiator
752 and carried in the authenticator checksum, if channel bindings are
753 not used by GSS_Accept_sec_context [RFC-2743], and the acceptor does
754 not prove to the initiator that it has the same channel bindings as
755 the initiator, even if the client requested mutual authentication.
756 This limitation should be taken into consideration by designers of
757 applications that would use channel bindings, whether to limit the
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761 use of GSS-API contexts to nodes with specific network addresses, to
762 authenticate other established, secure channels using Kerberos
763 Version 5, or for any other purpose.
765 Session key types are selected by the KDC. Under the current
766 mechanism, no negotiation of algorithm types occurs, so server-side
767 (acceptor) implementations cannot request that clients not use
768 algorithm types not understood by the server. However,
769 administrators can control what enctypes can be used for session
770 keys for this mechanism by controlling the set of the ticket session
771 key enctypes which the KDC is willing to use in tickets for a given
772 acceptor principal. The KDC could therefore be given the task of
773 limiting session keys for a given service to types actually
774 supported by the Kerberos and GSSAPI software on the server. This
775 does have a drawback for cases where a service principal name is
776 used both for GSSAPI-based and non-GSSAPI-based communication (most
777 notably the "host" service key), if the GSSAPI implementation does
778 not understand (for example) AES [AES-KRB5] but the Kerberos
779 implementation does. It means that AES session keys cannot be
780 issued for that service principal, which keeps the protection of
781 non-GSSAPI services weaker than necessary. KDC administrators
782 desiring to limit the session key types to support interoperability
783 with such GSSAPI implementations should carefully weigh the
784 reduction in protection offered by such mechanisms against the
785 benefits of interoperability.
789 Ken Raeburn and Nicolas Williams corrected many of our errors in the
790 use of generic profiles and were instrumental in the creation of
793 The text for security considerations was contributed by Nicolas
794 Williams and Ken Raeburn.
796 Sam Hartman and Ken Raeburn suggested the "floating trailer" idea,
797 namely the encoding of the RRC field.
799 Sam Hartman and Nicolas Williams recommended the replacing our
800 earlier key derivation function for directional keys with different
801 key usage numbers for each direction as well as retaining the
802 directional bit for maximum compatibility.
804 Paul Leach provided numerous suggestions and comments.
806 Scott Field, Richard Ward, Dan Simon, Kevin Damour, and Simon
807 Josefsson also provided valuable inputs on this document.
809 Jeffrey Hutzelman provided comments and clarifications for the text
810 related to the channel bindings.
812 Jeffrey Hutzelman and Russ Housley suggested many editorial changes.
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819 Luke Howard provided implementations of this document for the
820 Heimdal code base, and helped inter-operability testing with the
821 Microsoft code base, together with Love Hornquist Astrand. These
822 experiments formed the basis of this document.
824 Martin Rex provided suggestions of TOK_ID assignment recommendations
825 thus the token tagging in this document is unambiguous if the token
826 is wrapped with the pseudo ASN.1 header.
828 This document retains some of the text of RFC-1964 in relevant
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855 10.1. Normative References
857 [RFC-2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
858 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
860 [RFC-2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
861 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
863 [RFC-2743] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
864 Interface Version 2, Update 1", RFC 2743, January 2000.
866 [RFC-2744] Wray, J., "Generic Security Service API Version 2: C-
867 bindings", RFC 2744, January 2000.
869 [RFC-1964] Linn, J., "The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism",
875 DRAFT Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Expires August 2004
877 [KCRYPTO] RFC-Editor: To be replaced by RFC number for draft-ietf-
878 krb-wg-crypto. Work in Progress.
880 [KRBCLAR] RFC-Editor: To be replaced by RFC number for draft-ietf-
881 krb-wg-kerberos-clarifications. Work in Progress.
883 10.2. Informative References
885 [SSPI] Leach, P., "Security Service Provider Interface", Microsoft
886 Developer Network (MSDN), April 2003.
888 [AES-KRB5] RFC-Editor: To be replaced by RFC number for draft-
889 raeburn-krb-rijndael-krb. Work in Progress.
891 [RFC-2478] Baize, E., Pinkas D., "The Simple and Protected GSS-API
892 Negotiation Mechanism", RFC 2478, December 1998.
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